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I dont think we want to see our heroes thrown out like trash across the border. when it zeroes in on a veteran who served two combat tours it may bring to light how the policies are short-sighted. senator tammy duckworth has taken up the case and has asked for an allowance here. most veterans want more treatment on mental health, more lenient and more accommodating justice system. veterans courts are popular among the veteran community. wed like a pathway of understanding and support rather than...

Murder case against his client, brad cooper. >> you need actual evidence to convict and actual evidence is something that they did not have. >> reporter: no physical evidence, said defense attorneys kurtz and robert trankle to tie brad to nancys murder. the awful scenes from the cooper marriage the jury heard no witness from either side had seen brad physically violent toward nancy. for the $300 a week allowance there was a reason, the defense argued. remember the couple had serious debt. the de...

Week. the fact of the matter is, is that it caused friction between the two of them. >> reporter: and so the jury heard about that last week of nancys life, the week of war with brad. with nancys father on the stand, prosecutors played a phone message nancy left her parents after she returned home from that vacation with her family. >> the house was so dirty. there were ants infesting on the table when i got there. >> as that last week went on, the fighting escalated. on friday, her friend testi...

They went to counseling and thats when nancy heard what she said was the real story. >> brad says to the counselor, its been going on for a long time. changes again from the one-night stand to i think i love the woman. nancy came away from that and said im finished. >> reporter: they agreed to split, sell the house. nancy would move back to canada with the girls. and then suddenly, brad canceled nancys credit cards. blocked her access to the bank account. put her on a cash allowance. >> i recall...

Her move back to canada. she was, testified nancys friends, increasingly desperate. >> she said hes breaking me. i dont know how much left i have to fight. >> she told me when she slept at night she slept with her jeans on and the keys in her pocket with the children and the door locked. >> reporter: he never beat her. it wasnt physical, said the prosecutors. but he used financial power to exert absolute control. this, they said, was a form of domestic violence. >> she was in this abriv rough re...

>> no. >> no. >> no. besides my meds, antidepressants. is that okay? >> not good. >> greg: msnbc called it historic. for everyone else it felt odd. reminds me of the footage of someone i airplane flight. it is so much fun to watch. or when someone loses her temper at the store and is showing a clerk. with so much fun to watch. just like high school. when a fight breaks out, we crown around her watch. thanks to the plethora of cameras, the person having a really bad day becomes a delightful segme...

Conch in a decidedly west african inflected peanut stew with carolina rice, sauteed squash, and zucchini. >> anthony: oh, thats so good. >> sean: man, its been a while since ive had conch. >> anthony: clearly, i mean, correct me if im wrong, sean, theres a different kind of interest in charleston that existed 20 years ago, right? is something happening here and is it a good -- what, what, whats changed? >> b.j.: i mean, its good to have people from -- to have a more diverse community in a sense,...

Was hagues role similar to the role kelly is playing? >> well, we are seeing. i remember the month nixon resigned, we went to hagues house. his son let us in. >> i am sure he was thrilled. >> he was a happy guy. >> his son lost the four weeks of allowance or something. then hague told us, it was astonishing interview. he was so worried about nixon that nixon might take his life, that he took away nixons pills. at one point nixon said, in your business,al, they would leave a revolver in a drawer....

That might be dangerous in their eyes. its an extraordinary -- and you go to the final days where in the last year of the nixon presidency, there were concerns along those lines. but its awful early in the game in a new administration for this to be happening now. >> one forgets, he had a chief of staff who was a general who was relatively new. >> general hague. >> relatively new in the administration. was hagues role similar to the role that kellys been playing? >> well, were seeing that. i rem...

The president has a right for executive privilege. but as long as they know this, can they just skate around this and just undermine this committee? >> well, even within the same party, these sorts of things have limits, because there are always people present on both sides of it, the executive and the legislative, who are defensive of the prerogatives of their branch. and if you allow a new form of executive privilege now, then youll be seeing it more, you being congressmen, in the future, righ...